JUDGE DAWSON HEARS DEWBERRY CASE IN FEDERAL COURT Cross-Examines Commonwealth Attorney Cubbins of EXTRA Since going to press with this article Judge Dawson has denied the Habeas Corpus writ asked by Attorney Tucker [illegible]. A stay of execution was granted pending an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals. By Wm. H. Ferris. Attorney c. Eubanks Tucker presented the Dewberry case before Judge Dawson in the Federal Court Wednesday morning and afternoon. Walter Dewberry sued for a writ of Habeas Corpus on the ground that the presence of a mob in Elizabethtown, Ky., April 28th prevented the jury giving him a fair trial. Attorney Tucker when questioned by Attorney A. J. Slaughter told of a hostile mob of two thousand around the Court House in Elizabethtown April 28th. He said that he was in such a dazed condition after he had been knocked down and beaten by the crowd that he could not properly present his case and that the jury was undoubtedly influenced by the mob spirit. Attorney J. E. Wise, of Elizabethtown, who was counsel for charles Rogers and Edward Holmes co-defendants, who were electrocuted for the murder of Mr. Tillery, an Elizabethtown farmer in April, 1931 corroborated some of Mr. Tucker's statements. Attorney Brent C. Overstreet of Louisville, Ky. gave a vivid description of Mr. Tucker coming into the court room after he had been beaten by the mob, with bandaged head, swollen and discolored eyes with a lump on his jaw. He said that Mr. Tucker was crying and was very nervous. Mr. Sabing a [illegible], told how he was talking to Mr. Tucker in the Court House in the morning and how a court officer came to him and said "You had better stop talking to him. If you don't the crowd will get you." He said that he heard some in the say after Mr. Tucker had been beaten "It serves him right." Dr. Blackburn, who treated Mr. Tucker the morning after the assault said that the blows on the head and jaw seemed to have given Attorney Tucker cerebral concussion and a mental shock. Judge Dawson Cross Examines the Commonwealth Attorney The most brilliant moments in the hearing came when Judge Dawson in a masterly manner cross examined Allen P. Cubbins, the Commonwealth Attorney for Elizabethtown. Attorney Cubbins is an aristocratic looking man with keen eyes, and modulated voice and graceful gestures. In a suave manner, he tried to smooth over everything. He said he believed that people from East St. Louis and lower Kentucky, where the defendants ran wild, did the beating. He said that he did (Continued on page 8)

YOUNG BUSINESS MAN J. W. RAMSEY, JR. Mr. Ramsey is one of Louisville's well known young business men. He is the organizer and manager of the Ramsey Brothers, Cleaner and Dyers. For six years Ramsey Brothers have giving the public courteous and efficient service. They do all kind of cleaning, pressing and repairing. They are located on the South-East corner of Sixteenth and Prentice Sts. Phone Magnolia 9469.

Municipal College Honor Students Announced The program of the first commencement of Louisville Municipal College at Quinn Chapel last week carried the following as honor students for the first school year of the institution. First semester, John W. Hateh, 2.4; Robert B. Scott 2.4; Anna M. Lauderdale, 2.25; Carl G. Davis, 2.2; Addie E. Green, 2.2; Juanita H. Offutt, 2.2; Minnie E. Withers, 2.2; Pearl J. Clement, 2.: Katherine L. Cole, 2.: Ruthlyn R. Cole 2.: Florence H. Johnson, 2; Kalyn King, 2.; Joel L. Pope, 2.; Ray Russell, 2; Second Semester, Lottie L. Harris, 3.; John W. Hatch, 2.8; Juanita H. Offutt, 2.8; Anna M. Lauderdale, 2.5; Kathelene McClain, 2.5; Minne  E. Withers, 2.4; Pearl J. Clement, 2.25; Ruthlyn R. Cole, 2.2: Carl G. Davis, 2.2; Robert B. Scott, 2.2; Dorothy M. Allen, 2; Catherine Blackwell, 2.; Katherine L. Cole, 2.; Eva Mae Glass, 2.;  Addie E. Glass, 2.; Raymond O. Jackson, 2.; Florence H. Johnson, 2.; Joel P. Pope, 2.; Lucy M. Vanmeter 2.

LIGGETT AND MYERS COMPANY KEEPS HUNDREDS EMPLOYED YEARLY AVERAGE 1,000 COLORED MEN AND WOMEN Interesting And Valuable Information Given Leader Representative By Officials NOTE When the Editor of the Leader appeared with the Dean of the Municipal College at the Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company as speaker during the last Community Chest campaign he was so much impressed with the number of colored people at work and the general attitude of the officials and all those connected with the company that he on returning to his office wrote Mr. C. H. Schmitt, the general manager, that he would like to have a Leader representative call at the factory and get such information as he felt would be of interest to Leader readers. Mr. Schmitt was glad to cooperate. (By Staff Reporter) At 24th and Main Sts., Louisville, is a mass of high red brick buildings with many windows, the home of the Ligget and Myers Tobacco Company. In an office whose walls and ceiling were wood paneled with richly varnished oak, I presented myself and a better of introduction to mr. C. H. Schmitt, courteous and affable general manager of the company, who turned me over the Mr. S. W. Eggleton, who had been with the company forty years. He had risen from the manufacturing rooms to assistant superintendent. Mr. Eggleton showed me through the Liggett and Myers Tobacco plant. A huge elevator box like, conveyed us to an upper floor where small bundles of tobacco (he called them hands) were stacked in high orderly piles, all over the floor. 400,000 pounds of Pennsylvania tobacco to be worked in less than three days. White men were here but down the iron stairs on another floor were [224?] colored men seated on low stools. Swiftly,k silently efficiently they worked, their muscular arms flashing back and forth so swiftly at their task my eyes could hardly follow. They were "stemming" (stripping the stems from tobacco leaves and as they were paid, not by the day but by the amount of work done, i  t behooved them to make every motion count. Down more stairs, and twin rooms, exactly as the one above were peopled with colored (Continued on page 4)

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